AIG Names Cummings as Vice President, Controller

American International Group Inc. has named Don Cummings as vice president and controller. He will assume responsibilities for the global controller unit, reporting to Jeffrey Farber, AIG deputy chief financial officer. Cummings will also oversee the controller units of the operating companies. He has been based in Houston but will relocate to AIG’s New York headquarters.

Cummings most recently served as senior vice president and deputy chief financial officer of AIG Life and Retirement. He is replacing Joseph Cook, who became deputy chief financial officer of AIG Property Casualty. Cummings will assume the role of principal accounting officer in the second quarter of 2013.

Cummings, 49, served as senior vice president and deputy chief financial officer of AIG Life and Retirement since March 2012, overseeing the Life and Retirement controller unit. He joined AIG in 2007 as senior vice president and chief accounting officer of American General Life Companies, and subsequently served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of American General Life Companies from August 2009 to April 2011 and as senior vice president and controller of AIG Life and Retirement from April 2011 to March 2012.

He has 27 years of experience in financial management including significant expertise with life insurance and annuity companies, broker-dealers, mutual funds, and investment advisors.